title: Giant cell reparative granuloma of the skull base mimicking an intracranial tumor. Case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Giant cell reparative granuloma is an infrequent nontumoral lesion affecting particularly the maxillary and mandibular bones and only rarely the cranial bones. The etiopathogenesis is still controversial and differential diagnosis, especially from giant cell tumors of bone, is arduous. We report a case of giant cell reparative granuloma of the middle cranial fossa which behaved like an intracranial tumor and which we followed up for 15 years. We discuss the relevant literature and describe the essential features of this controversial lesion.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ciappetta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salvati
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bernardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raco
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Di Lorenzo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006101:Granuloma, Giant Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology